RE: My Second Magazine Cover
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Tell them, explain, and ask how they will compensate you. They can write an article about you in the next edition for example. If that sounds good to you, you might wanna tell them the compensation doesn't necessarily need to be hard cash, but that you request a compensation.
My parents are the same, they thought I shouldn't make a big deal out of it, until they saw my pictures on a 2 page article.
Publishers are VERY WELL aware of what they are doing. They'll pull cards like, my internship did it, I didn't know, I thought it was public domain, we just started, someone else gave me this picture, and so on. I got all these cards and they all paid me, or compensated me. They try, if not with your pictures, they'll find other photographers to abuse.
Thing also is, you'll have much stronger ground if you can proof you've sold your services as a prof. photographer before.
Just rude and disrespectful!
If it was a proper publication that is earning money with it, I would make a whole hell a lot bigger deal about this. but since it's a charity and I had given the picture to their different charter, it's a smaller crime. I did send the editor a message, a very civil one and I didn't demand anything, just said they should be more mindful about copyrights. I did also mention that I do photography for a living so it's important to me that my name is mentioned when my pictures are used.
You're way more civil than I am. I wish I were like that a bit more :D
I was absolutely fuming when I first found this magazine, but I took three days to cool down 😂😅
Yeah... that's probably for the best xD. This stuff triggers me so much, it takes forever to cool down.